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Safir, intrigued by Scorecard (named for its creator's favorite pastime, keeping baseball statistics), rented an office in San Francisco's Federal Building and assigned Wutrich to teach two dozen other investigators to use the system. Working at 15 terminals tied to an Altos 3068 computer, they fed in data about each fugitive from interviews, rap sheets and computerized files from the FBI, DEA and other government agencies. They learned to query for patterns and to dispatch tips to the field task forces. Investigators who had spent their careers exchanging information via slow, spotty teletypes became born-again high-tech...
...this radical project illustrated better than in the humorous and ingenious, "My Monster/My Self", in which Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is read as an autobiographical confession of maternal rejection. The literary monster is analyzed as product of "a single parent household," the unwanted brainchild of a mad (pro)creator, who in childhood was abandoned by her own mother...
Howard Fields, 39, is making an outlandish splash in business. Three years ago, the Sausalito, Calif., entrepreneur plunged into the world of exotic- swimming-pool and -pond design. Now he is a leading creator of aquatic fantasies, with about 200 projects to his credit. Among them: a $3 million pool masquerading as a river that flows for the equivalent of six city blocks at a Puerto Rican resort. At Washington's Grand Hyatt Hotel, Fields is working on a $1 million, 3,000-sq.-ft. lake that will feature hundreds of live koi fish, 100-ft. waterfalls and a piano...
...series survived many traumas and changes, from the death of Co-Star Michael Conrad (who as Sergeant Phil Esterhaus opened each episode with its trademark roll call) to the 1985 departure of Steven Bochco, the show's co- creator, fired after reported disputes over cost overruns. Yet new characters (like Dennis Franz's choleric Lieut. Buntz) and continued good scripts (including one this season by Playwright David Mamet) injected fresh life. "This one never went downhill," says NBC Entertainment President Brandon Tartikoff. "It's like a ballplayer: you want to see someone go out a winner, like Sandy Koufax, instead...
...Bingham family's Louisville newspaper empire. The / Los Angeles Times also took two prizes: for Michael Parks' reports from South Africa and Richard Eder's book criticism. Charles Krauthammer, a Washington Post columnist and TIME essayist, won the commentary award for his newspaper columns, and Berke Breathed, creator of the Bloom County comic strip, got the nod for editorial cartooning...